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(PAN-ASTHENIA) 


ITS CAUSE and CURE 


Dr. Louis Dechmann 


jlulhor of: Procreation (Within the SuJ) 

Regeneration (Tiare to be Healthy) 

Valere Aude (Compendium of Dare to be Health]:) 



"I attempt a difficult work, but there is 
excellence without difficulty.”— Ovid 



Copyrighted 1919 

IBu THE WASHINGTON PRINTING CO. 
Seattle, Washington 







Bettication 

TO MY GUIDING STARS: 

Hippocrates, Boerhaave, Johannes 
Mueller, Von Liebig and Hensel, I 
gladly dedicate this work. Thus 1 
attempt to repay in part the debt 
which humanity owes to these sons 
of all the ages. 




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I. 


THE REASON FOR MEDICAL FAILURE IN COPING 
WITH SPANISH INFLUENZA 

The Spanish influenza pandemia which is encircling the 
globe and claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands, aye, 
of millions of people, presents a problem before which the 
medical profession stands baffled. A multitude of hy¬ 
potheses have been offered as a basis for as many methods 
of treating the plague, but the disease runs its course un¬ 
checked. Thus far the medical faculty of the world has not 
even succeeded in defining the nature of the disease. The 
first problem, therefore, at least the first aspect of the 
problem, is to ascertain the nature of the disease, to uncover 
its underlying cause, in order that we may have a scientific 
foundation on which to base our diagnosis and our treat¬ 
ment of it. 

The purpose of this treatise, therefore, must be two-fold, 
namely to lay bare the underlying cause of Spanish influ¬ 
enza, and to offer a therapeutic method calculated to remove 
that cause. The primary phase of our purpose could be 
stated dogmatically in very few words, but that would leave 
room for doubt as to the soundness of the premises of our 
argument, and to remove all possibility of doubt it will be 
necessary to discuss certain aspects of anatomy and physi¬ 
ology as well as pathology and therapy. 

The longest road is sometimes the shortest way to the 
goal! 


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Only a few days ago, to-wit, on January 20th, The Seat¬ 
tle Post-Intelligencer published a two column report from 
the pen of Frederick J. Haskin, Washington, D. C., detailing 
the complete failure of a series of experiments made under 
direction of the Public Health Service Department of the 
United States Government. He stated that the failure of 
one hundred men to take the disease during the course of 
experiments which involved even smearing their throats 
and noses with matter taken from the throats of patients 
suffering from the disease had completely baffled the phy¬ 
sicians in charge. The widespread publicity given to this 
report cannot fail to shake the confidence of the general 
public in the medical profession somewhat. 

We know that there is sharp criticism of the profession 
by the laity, which finds expression in unexpected places. 
George Bernard Shaw, the distinguished English writer, in 
a closely reasoned article on the subject of the medical fet¬ 
ish and failure in stolidly complacent England, says: “The 
assumption is that the 'registered doctor’ or surgeon knows 
everything that is known, and can do everything that is 
done. This means that the dogma of omniscience, omni¬ 
potence, and infallibility, and something very like the theory 
of apostolic succession and kingship by anointment, have 
recovered in medicine the grip they have lost in theology 
and politics. This would not matter if the ‘legally qualified 
doctor’ was a completely qualified healer; but this is not the 
case; far from it. Dissatisfaction with the orthodox methods 
and technique is so widespread that the supply of technically 
qualified unregistered practitioners is insufficient for the 
demand—and some of them draw fees ten to twenty times 
as large as the registered practitioners. The reputation of 
the unregistered specialist is usually well-founded. He must 
deliver the goods. He cannot live by the faith of his patients, 
in a string of letters after his name.” 

This is severe criticism in which G. B. S. indulges, but in 
view of the growth of new schools of healing, and in view 


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of the birth of a new freak of health reform almost every 
day, there can be little doubt, I take it, that there is a 
measure of truth in his strictures. There is no need of 
cataloging either the heterodox schools of healing or the 
latest additions to the list of freak health reforms, as every 
physician and most well informed laymen are well acquaint¬ 
ed with them. The very fact that the practitioners of these 
heterodox schools find patients, and the fact that the orig¬ 
inators of these freak health reforms find followers, offers 
ample evidence of loss of faith in orthodox medical practice! 

What must be done to curb this tendency ? How shall the 
shaken confidence of the general public in the medical pro¬ 
fession be restored? Whatever is to be done, must be done 
immediately! It is my hearty desire to assist in restoring 
confidence. But an enduring faith, confidence, must be 
justified by works! 

In these circumstances I shall speak as frankly and 
plainly as the facts seem to justify, and all I ask is that my 
words shall be weighed in the light of my purpose. 

This may appear to be a digression from the subject in 
hand, but it is essential that we take a bird’s eye view of the 
whole field before we confine ourselves to consideration of 
the particular problem which is our theme. 

There is, of course, a fundamental difference between 
the viewpoint of this treatise and that of the medical fra¬ 
ternity in general in examining the problem presented by 
the pandemia of Spanish influenza. I can only ask, in ad¬ 
vance, that the physician whose point of view differs from 
mine will suspend judgment until he has read and weighed 
well the whole of my argument. 

It seems to me that there is too much antique mystery in 
connection with the practice of modern medicine, and too 
free use of a multitude of drugs which are expected to act as 
specifics, while all too little attention is paid by the average 
practitioner to the fundamental problems involved in supply¬ 
ing the nutritive wants of the various tissues of the human 


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body. But on these points I shall let the facts cited in the 
course of the discussion speak for themselves. I am con¬ 
vinced, however, that the reign of mystery must be ended, 
and the use of drugs very, very greatly curtailed. 

In a report made public on January 12th, the health and 
morals commissions of Chicago stated that under their di¬ 
rection 741,825 prescriptions written by doctors in October 
at the height of the influenza epidemic had been examined. 
Of these prescriptions 441,641 were evidently intended for 
influenza and pneumonia patients and 104,010 of them con¬ 
tained opium or its derivatives. The report adds that these 
drugs were unnecessary and dangerous. This is indeed a 
conservative statement of the case! 

An editorial warning against too much confidence in 
vaccination as a means of combatting Spanish influenza, 
which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical 
Association on November 9, 1918, contained the following 
statements: ^‘Nothing can be learned as to its real value 
from indiscriminate vaccination of the public. * * * * * 
Pending developments, nothing should be done by the 
medical profession that may arouse unwarranted hope 
among the public and be followed by disappointment and 
distrust of medical science and the medical profession.” 

On this same point, permit me to quote the opinion of 
Dr. Karl F. Meyer, of the Hooper Institute of Medical Re¬ 
search of the University of California, who says: “Serums 
have not yet been introduced which produce immunity from 
Spanish influenza. The serums now employed are of no 
use whatsoever. Even the vaccine formerly employed suc¬ 
cessfully against pneumonia is not giving satisfactory re¬ 
sults in connection with influenza.” 

“You have no idea” Dr. Meyer adds, “of how really and 
truly helpless we are. As an example, take the advice given 
us by public health men when we asked what should be done 
if the epidemic struck the West. They said ‘organize your 
hospitals and undertakers^ and that came true.” 


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In the same statement Dr. Meyer declared that the 
medical fraternity is in total darkness as to the cause and 
nature of Spanish influenza, and if proof of the correctness 
of his utterance is needed it may be found in the declaration 
of Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of the United States Pub¬ 
lic Health Service, on December 11th, that “the country need 
not fear that the influenza epidemic will return; it has come 
and gone for good.'' 

These are the statements of experts, the testimony of 
men who should know whereof they speak. Dr. Karl F. 
Meyer is an epidemologist, an expert on epidemics, con¬ 
nected with one of the great university research institu¬ 
tions, but he confesses his ignorance and that of the entire 
medical fraternity as to the nature of this plague. Grant¬ 
ing that Surgeon General Blue's statement may be of some 
value judged from the standpoint of psycho-therapy, the 
fact is that the epidemic is still with us, and likely to be 
with us, though varying in its intensity according as climat¬ 
ological conditions vary, during the next two or three years. 

In the November (1918) number of The American Jour¬ 
nal of Public Health, Dr. W. A. Evans and Dr. M. 0. Heck- 
ard, of the Chicago Health Department, call attention to the 
fact that: “Hirsch's ‘Handbook of Historical and Geograph¬ 
ical Pathology' records almost one hundred epidemics occur¬ 
ring in the eight hundred years prior to 1889. It is clearly 
set forth," they declare, “that practically each of these 
epidemics lasted longer than one year, or else recurred sev¬ 
eral times during the course of two or more years." 

I have not spoken of the use of masks as a preventive 
measure, but when these much vaunted contraptions are 
spoken of “it is," as the old proverb says, “very hard not 
to write a satire." Let us, therefore, try to forget this great¬ 
est farce in the entire history of medicine! 

There can be no doubt that the medical fraternity knows 
nothing as to the cause, and very little, if anything, about 
the nature of Spanish influenza, with the inevitable result 


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that the whole medical world is busy battling against effects. 
It may be asked, and with very good reason, too, why should 
medical scientists find themselves in this position? The 
answer to this pertinent query will be forthcoming presently. 
Then, we shall resume the trail and attempt to point out the 
fundamental cause of this plague, and having done that, we 
shall be in a position to make the nature of the disease clear, 
and having a clear idea of both its cause and nature, we 
shall offer a therapeutic plan calculated to remove its cause. 

The medical fraternity of the whole world finds itself 
thrust into a cul de sac by Spanish influenza, thanks to the 
work of two of the great stars of Germany, namely. Prof. 
Robert Koch and Prof. Rudolph Virchow! It is not my de¬ 
sire to belittle either the intentions or the labors of these 
men. On the contrary, I deeply appreciate the sincere mo¬ 
tives and the laborious experimental work of both. But so 
far as the results of their work is concerned, the facts them¬ 
selves are sufficiently eloquent. 

It is thirty years since Prof. Koch, discoverer of the 
tubercle bacillus, announced that he had found an unfailing 
cure for tuberculosis, which he named tuberculin. From 
that day until this hour, medical science has been chasing 
its bacteriological phantom. But in 1909, before the Tuber¬ 
culosis Congress at Washington, D. C., Prof. Koch an¬ 
nounced that he was still continuing his search for a cure I 

As to the value of Prof. Koch’s tuberculin, let me quote 
a single statement from “Medicine” by Dr. Frederick 
Meyer: “One disease only, alas! the one which costs man¬ 
kind the heaviest losses, cannot yet, in spite of the most bril¬ 
liant discoveries of modern times, be presented in a manner 
at all satisfactory. Tuberculosis has become the worst 
enemy of our race, innumerable victims of this disease are 
yearly dissected and examined, and yet it has not hitherto 
proved possible to determine whether the subjects of tuber¬ 
culosis are killed by the poisons developed by Koch’s bacillus 
or as a result of infection. ***** From these statements 


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it is evident that we have up to the present time no effective 
serum for use in tuberculosis.” 

As a matter of fact, Prof. Koch himself has said: “the 
remedy does not kill the tubercle bacillus, but only the tuber¬ 
cular tissue.” 

Thirty years ago the German Reichstag gave Prof. Rob¬ 
ert Koch a million marks in appreciation of his great dis¬ 
covery of an unfailing cure for the terrible plague, tuber¬ 
culosis. It did not take thirty years to find the futility of 
Koch’s tuberculin. The immortal Julius Hensel made clear 
its failure in 1892, just two years after its discovery had 
been announced with trumpets. In spite of the failure of 
Prof. Koch to find an unfailing cure in more than thirty 
years of systematic and laborious work, every student is led 
to chase the phantom of bacillus and to concoct more serums. 
It is in order, I think, to ask, why? 

The answer to the foregoing question must lead to con¬ 
sideration of the theory of “Cellular Pathology” formulated 
by Prof. Robert Virchow, which was published in 1858. This 
theory, in a nutshell, is that changes in the composition of 
the cells is the first cause of all disease. He does not give 
the reason for changes in cell structure. It was this, I may 
say en passant, which led me to the conclusion that Virchow 
was not familiar enough with chemistry, especially with or¬ 
ganic chemistry, to enable him to give the conditions of dis¬ 
ease. The results of this colossal error are with us yet. I 
shall speak at greater length on this point on another occa¬ 
sion. 

Just as I was about to fall into the error of viewing the 
problem from the same point of view as Virchow, I came 
upon a lecture by Prof. Schweninger, Privy Councilor to 
Bismarck, which contained the following statement, and 
this acted as a guide out of the labyrinth for me: 

“In order to understand a sickness or disease and to un¬ 
dertake to thoroughly cure the same,” says Professor 
Schweninger,” it is first of all necessary to unfold before 


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one’s mental vision the ways and means of its formation, 
and by degrees to trace its origin, before one is enabled to 
prepare therapeutic measures conformable to the individual 
stages of same.” 

In this sense I strenuously tried to get at the bottom of 
the inception of constitutional diseases, but the entire medi¬ 
cal literature served only to bring me to pathological ana¬ 
tomy, which informs us that the original cause of disease is 
a change in the form of the cellular elements of various or¬ 
gans, in explanation of which the customary technical terms 
are used, such as atrophy, degeneration, metamorphosis, 
etc. But this did not satisfy me; I reasoned, surely this can¬ 
not be the origin of disease. 

The cause for the visible changing of tissues must be 
sought in the conditional interstitial substances which cause 
the invisible changes or shiftings of the cellular forms, and 
which are scientifically termed "‘changed nutritional condi¬ 
tions.” This was my course of reasoning: As the cellules, 
which are the smallest individual elements of the human sys¬ 
tem, are only products of the blood, and for their composi¬ 
tion require different chemical substances in varying quan¬ 
tities, it is obviously necessary to fathom what those chemic¬ 
al elements of the cellules may be, what form they take in 
their mutual relation to the separate parts of the body, and 
in what way they enter the organism. 

This involves, first of all, a return to the viewpoint of 
Hippocrates, “the father of Medicine,” and a brief examina¬ 
tion of the attitude of his three greatest disciples, Galen, 
Sydenham and Boerhaave towards the problem. This will 
keep us, as I shall prove, from being sidetracked, from pin¬ 
ning our faith to abstract theories, from falling into the pit 
of empirical deductions, and hold us to the task of following 
the phenomena of life from the formation of the blood to the 
formation of the cells and the various aggregations of cells 
called organs and tissues. Thus we shall, if it be at all pos- 


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sible, lay bare the underlying causes of pathological phe¬ 
nomena, of disease. 

I have already remarked that there is a fundamental dif¬ 
ference between the viewpoint of this treatise and that of 
the medical fraternity in general, but I want to repeat it, 
and to again ask the physician whose point of view differs 
from mine to suspend his judgment until he has read and 
digested my entire argument. 

For the purpose of making the difference between my 
point of view and that of the leaders of the medical faculty 
clear, it may be well to cite a brief resume of the teachings 
of Hippocrates, Galen, Sydenham and Boerhaave. The mod¬ 
ern medical world acknowledges that the doctrines of these 
four men is the foundation upon which the practice of heal¬ 
ing has been raised to the status of a science, but it is the 
least essential part of the work of Hippocrates, namely, his 
statement of theory which has been given prominence, 
whilst the most important portion of his labors, the practical 
part, has been neglected and ignored. 

The following passages are taken from the article en¬ 
titled: “History of Medicine” in the Encyclopedia Britan- 
nica, 11th Edition, Vol. XVIII, pages 42-51: 

“Hippocrates, called the Tather of Medicine^ lived dur¬ 
ing the age of Pericles, (495-429 B. C.) and occupied as high 
a position in medicine as did the great philosophers, orators 
and tragedians of their respective fields. 

“His high conception of the duties and position of the 
physician and the skill with which he manipulated the 
materials that were at hand, constituted two important char¬ 
acteristics of Hippocratic medicine. Another was the rec¬ 
ognition that disease, as well as health, is a process govern¬ 
ed by what we call natural laws, learned by observation, and 
indicating the direction of recovery. These views of the 
^natural history of disease^ led to the habit of minute obser¬ 
vation and careful interpretation of symptoms, in which the 


13 


Hippocratic school excelled and has been the model for all 
succeeding ages, so that even now the true method of clinical 
medicine may be said to be the method of Hippocrates. 

“One of the important doctrines of Hippocrates was the 
healing power of nature. He did not teach that nature was 
sufficient to cure disease, but he recognized a natural pro¬ 
cess of the humours, at least in acute diseases, being first 
of all crude then passing through coction or digestion, and 
finally being expelled by resolution or crisis through one of 
the natural channels of the body. The duty of the physician 
was to 'assist and not to hinder these changes, so that the 
sick man might conquer the disease with the help of the 
physician.” 

''Galen, the man from whom the greater part of modern 
European medicine has flowed, lived about 131 to 201, A. D. 
He was equipped with all the anatomical, medical and philo¬ 
sophical knowledge of his time; he had studied all kinds of 
natural curiosities and was in close touch with important 
political events; he possessed enormous industry, great prac¬ 
tical sagacity, and unbounded literary fluency. At that time 
there were numerous sects in the medical profession, vari¬ 
ous dogmatic systems prevailed in medical science, and the 
social standing of physicians was degraded. He assumed 
the task of reforming the existing evils and restoring the 
unity of medicine as it had been understood by Hippocrates, 
at the same time elevating the dignity of medical practi¬ 
tioners. 

“In the explanation and healing of diseases he applied 
the science of physiology. His theory was based upon the 
Hippocratic doctrine of humours, but he developed it with 
marvelous ingenuity. He advocated that the normal condi¬ 
tion of the body depended upon a proper proportion of the 
four elements, hot, cold, wet and dry. The faulty propor¬ 
tions of the same gave rise, not to diseases, but to the occa¬ 
sions for disease. He laid equal stress upon the faulty com¬ 
position or dysaemia of the blood. He claimed that all dis- 


14 


eases were due to a combination of these morbid predis¬ 
positions, together with injurious external influences, and 
thus explained all symptoms and all diseases. He found a 
name for every phenomenon and a solution for every prob¬ 
lem. And though it was precisely in this characteristic that 
he abandoned scientific methods and practical utility, it was 
also this quality that gained for him his popularity and 
prominence in the medical world. 

‘'However, his reputation grew slowly. His opinions 
were in opposition to those of other physicians of his time. 
In the succeeding generation he won esteem as a philosopher, 
and it was only gradually that his system was accepted im¬ 
plicitly. It enjoyed great, though not exclusive predomin¬ 
ance until the fall of Roman civilization.'' 

**Thomas Sydenham, (1624-1689) was well acquainted 
with the works of the ancient physicians and had a fair 
knowledge of chemistry. Whether he had any knowledge 
of anatomy is not definitely known. He advocated the 
actual study of disease in an impartial manner, discarding 
all hypothesis. He repeatedly referred to Hippocrates in his 
medical methods, and he has quite deservedly been styled 
the English Hippocrates. He placed great stress on the 
‘natural history of disease,' just as did his Greek master, and 
likewise attached great importance to ‘epidemic constitu¬ 
tion,' that is, the influence of weather and other natural 
causes on the process of disease. He believed in the healing 
power of nature to an even greater degree than did Hip¬ 
pocrates. He claimed that disease was nothing more than 
an effort on the part of nature to restore the health of the 
patient by the elimination of the morbific matter. 

“The reform of practical medicine was affected by men 
who advocated the rejection of all hypothesis and the im¬ 
partial study of natural processes, as shown in health and 
disease. Sydenham showed that these natural processes 
could be studied and dealt with without being explained, 
and, by laying stress on facts and disregarding explanations, 


15 


he introduced a method in medicine far more fruitful than 
any discoveries. Though the dogmatic spirit continued to 
live for a long time, the reign of standard authority has 
passed.'' 

''Boerhaave, In the latter part of the seventeenth 
century a physician arose (1668-1738) who was destined to 
become far more prominent in the medical world than any 
of the English physicians of the age of Queen Anne, though 
he differed but little from them in his way of thinking. 
This was Hermann Boerhaave. For many years he was 
professor of medicine at Leyden, and excelled in influence 
and reputation not only his greatest forerunners, Montanus 
of Padua and Sylvius of Leyden, but probably every sub¬ 
sequent teacher. The hospital at Leyden became the centre 
of medical influence in Europe. Many of the leading Eng¬ 
lish physicians of the 18th century studied there. Boer- 
haave's method of teaching was transplanted to Vienna 
through one of his pupils, Gerard Van Swieten, and thus the 
noted Vienna school of medicine was founded. 

'‘The services of Boerhaave to the progress of medicine 
can hardly be overestimated. He was the organizer and al¬ 
most the constructor of the modern method of clinical in¬ 
struction. He followed the methods of Hipprocrates and 
Sydenham in his teachings and in his practice. The points 
of his system that are best known are his doctrines of in¬ 
flammation, obstruction, and ‘plethora.' In the practice of 
medicine he aimed to make use of all the anatomical and 
physiological acquisitions of his age, including microscopical 
anatomy. 

“In this respect he differed from Sydenham, for the lat¬ 
ter paid but little more attention to modern medicine than 
to ancient dogma. In some respects he was like Galen, but 
again different from him, as he did not wish to reduce his 
knowledge to any definite system. He spent much time 
in studying the medical classics, though he valued them 
from an historical standpoint rather than from an authorita- 


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tive standpoint. It would almost seem that the great task 
of Boerhaave^s life, a combination of ancient and modern 
medicine, could not be of any real permanent value, and the 
same might be said of his Aphorisms, in which he gave a 
summary of the fact that his contributions to the science of 
medicine form one of the necessary factors in the construc¬ 
tion of modern medicine.^’ 

I am justified in my course, therefore, by the teachings 
of these four pillars of the medical world, all of whom dealt 
with humoral pathology, but were not in the position to 
enter as deeply into the problem as we are for the simple 
reason that neither chemistry nor physiology were any¬ 
where nearly as highly developed as they are in our own 
day. 

It was more than a century after the death of Boer- 
haave that the world was blessed by birth of Johannes Muel¬ 
ler, the son of a poor shoemaker, who became the greatest 
physiologist the world has produced. His works on the 
physiology of man were published in 1833-8, and they are 
the most authoritative and reliable books on this subject. 
Our scholastic textbooks on this subject are far below Muel¬ 
ler's, both with regard to matter and the manner of pre¬ 
senting it. 

The next great light we were blessed with was the ana¬ 
tomist Joseph Hyrtl. Yes, indeed, he was so great that he 
dared to make the following statement: “For thousands of 
years medicine has found remedies, but not a single truth, 
not a single law of life." Vide: Joseph Hyrtl's Textbook of 
the Anatomy of Man, 1878, page 31, line 30. 

Then came the greatest chemist, Justus von Liebig, who 
gave us the great law of the minimum, that the absence of 
the tiniest ingredient essential to the growth and function¬ 
ing of an organ or tissue will result in the degeneration or 
improper functioning of that organ or tissue. 

Shortly before von- Liebig laid down his law of the mini¬ 
mum, Professor Jacob Moleschott, noted Dutch physician. 


17 


declared: “It is one of the chief questions people are always 
asking of a physician, how to obtain good, healthy and ac¬ 
tive blood. Put the question as you will, all who occupy their 
minds with it are brought by experience to acknowledge ex¬ 
plicitly, with whatever degree of hesitation and timidity it 
may occasion, that our powers of thinking, of feeling and of 
action, and even our very expectation of progeny, are de¬ 
pendent upon our blood, and our blood on proper nutrition.’’ 

The next to throw a powerful light upon the problem 
was Julius Hensel, master of agricultural and physiological 
chemistry. With pleasure will I quote some of his work 
presently in connection with my own explanations and leave 
it to the intelligent reader to pass judgment. Hensel is 
bound to be acknowledged very soon as immortal! His 
greatest work: “Das Leben, seine Grundlage und die Mittel 
zu seiner Erhaltung,” (Life, its Foundation and the Means 
for its Preservation) has not yet been translated into Eng¬ 
lish to my knowledge. German edition published by Boe- 
ricke and Tafel, Philadelphia. The first edition was pub¬ 
lished in Christiania in 1885, the second edition in Philadel¬ 
phia in 1890. What is it that has prevented the publication 
of such a monumental work in English in this country? The 
knowledge this work contains will work a revolution in 
medical theory and practice once it is generally known. Is 
it timidity or orthodox fear that has kept Hensel’s work in 
obscurity? Another monumental work of his entitled: 
“Makrobiotik, oder Unsere Krankheiten und Unsere Heil- 
mittel,” (Macrobiotic, or Our Diseases and Our Remedies) 
was first published in Germany in 1882; the second edition 
in 1892. 

Then came Professor Hueppe, of Prague, bacteriologist, 
who was first assistant to Prof. Robert Koch at the time he 
discovered the tubercle bacillus. He tried to act as the bal¬ 
ance wheel, but the pressure of the medical profession upon 
Prof. Koch to publish his discovery was too great for Prof. 
Hueppe’s counter efforts. The following statement which 
he made should have served as a deterrent until positive 


18 


proof was forthcoming as to the nature of microbes and 
bacillus. “The cause of disease in the scientific sense is al¬ 
ways internal and is what we designate empirically as dis¬ 
position. The microbes are only the releasing irritants of a 
specific kind, therefore in a truly scientific sense are not to 
be described as a cause.^^ 

In this ignorance as to the nature of the fundamental 
cause of disease resides the explanation for the lack of causal 
therapy, and for the want of correct prophylactic or pre¬ 
ventive principles. This, also, is the explanation for the 
failure of symptomatic therapy. In opposition to the gen¬ 
eral mania for bacteriological causes of disease, how woe¬ 
fully few members of the medical profession occupy them¬ 
selves with disposition to disease, with constitutional varia¬ 
tions, and with problems arising from constitutional dis¬ 
turbances. 


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II. 


SPECIALIZATION IS CAUSE OF MEDICAL CHAOS. 

The reason for this fundamental ignorance is to be found 
in the point of view from which anatomy, physiology, path¬ 
ology and therapy are taught. Let us compare the method 
of teaching anatomy in general use with the teaching of 
this subject when based upon physiological chemistry. 

The method of teaching in general use is that founded by 
Galen, who has been dead almost two thousand years. He 
knew that a scaffolding is necessary in erecting a building, 
as his father was an architect. His method of teaching 
anatomy is based upon the skeleton. Thus vital knowledge 
of a living organism is to be sought in a heap of dead and 
glistening bones, in a skeleton. Could anything more ab¬ 
surd be conceived as scientific? In fairness to Galen, let us 
admit that it was not absurd in his day—because chemistry 
was then unknown. 

It is time for us to get away from dead bones. With the 
skeleton in the closet, what shall serve as the starting point 
of our anatomical studies? Whatever our starting point 
may be, we must view the body as a unit composed of a 
series of interdependent tissues and organs, as a chemical 
process, the result of which is the organization, agglomera¬ 
tion and diferrentiation of matter. 

Viewed from this standpoint our study of anatomy must, 
as Hensel so well says: “Proceed from the mobile nerve 
substance, which lays alike the foundation and provides the 
form. That these two elements — the foundation and the 
form of our bodies—apparently opposed to each other— 


20 


should, when viewed from a chemical standpoint, be found 
in hitherto unsuspected agreement, can only serve to sup¬ 
port the view that all our bodily parts have their origin in 
one common fundamental material.’' 

This view is generally admitted by scientists, but, thanks 
to the habit of following well-beaten trails, the proper con¬ 
clusion to be drawn from it is rarely sensed by any of them. 

In other words, the habit of thinking of anatomy as nothing 
more than the study of a dead caricature of a man, a skele¬ 
ton, is so strongly rooted in their minds that the idea of 
studying the subject from the point of view of the develop¬ 
ment and differentiation of protoplasmic material is given 
no thought at all. 

A brief excursion into the domain of embryology would • 
offer ample evidence of the folly of studying anatomy from 
a skeleton. It would reveal that the bones are not primary, 
but that the brain and the nervous system are first devel¬ 
oped in the embryo. Indeed, the bones are formed very 
slowly by the deposition of calcium phosphate in glutinous 
cartilage, the process being incomplete even at the birth of 
the child. It is to be remarked that both the brain and the 
nervous tissues are built up of cells, and these cells, in turn, 
issue from the blood plasm. The point of departure for him 
who would understand how the body is built up, in short its 
anatomy and its physiology, must be the blood, not a bundle 
of bones! 

In this connection I would cite the fact that the great 
Dubois-Reymond, while addressing one of his classes, said: 
“Gentlemen, we now proceed to the spleen. We know nothing 
of the spleen; we pass to the liver.” 

Is it to be wondered at, then, that the medical profession 
of the world relies upon drugs and serums, upon scalpels, 
forceps, scissors, hammers, and saws to cure constitutional 
diseases? Want of basic knowledge must be covered with 
a multitude of instruments—a thermometer, spyghmograph, 
a plessimeter to tap the patient, a stethoscope to hear with. 


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a catheter, bougies, and galvanic apparatus. But at the end, 
as a rule. Mother Earth must cover all! 

The point of view from which scholastic physiology pro¬ 
ceeds to the study of the body leads to the consideration of 
each process, of each organ and its function, independent of 
all others, as though they were things separate and apart 
from the chemico-electric process which animates the whole 
body. The fact is, physiology as taught in the schools now¬ 
adays has no basis on earth, but is a castle in the air. It is 
the failure of physiologists to stress the unity of the life 
process which is responsible, in part at least, for the de¬ 
velopment of symptomatic therapy. This failure to bear in 
mind the interdependence of all phases of the life process, 
the interdependence of the organs, leads a vast multitude of 
physicians to have recourse to antipyretics, febrifuges, co¬ 
caine, heroin, morphia, aspirin, and so on ad nauseam. It is 
also responsible for the production of another ^‘unfailing 
serum” with the outbreak of each new epidemic. Humajiity 
is to be given health with the aid of deadly drugs and putre¬ 
fying matter! 

It is more than fifty years since Prof. Jacob Moleschott 
called attention in unmistakable terms to the fact that 
the problem of health is bound up in the question, how shall 
we maintain the blood in a healthy bactericide state? But 
his words were uttered in vain, so far as the majority of 
physicians are concerned. The trinity on which they still 
rely consists of drugs, serums and knives! 

In order that the reader may not think we minimize the 
effect of chemical discoveries upon the teaching of physiol¬ 
ogy in the medical departments of our colleges and universi¬ 
ties, let us glance at the work of Albert P. Mathews, Profes¬ 
sor of Physiological Chemistry in the University of Chicago, 
entitled: “Physiological Chemistry: A Textbook and Manu¬ 
al for Students.” The edition in hand is the second, pub¬ 
lished in 1916, which contains more than a thousand pages. 
But all I can find devoted to the consideration of the func- 


22 


tion of the mineral elements in our food is comprised in the 
following quotation: 

“Mineral substances are also necessary to life, and the 
result of keeping them out of the food is disastrous. In the 
perspiration and urine salts of various kinds are constantly 
being lost. Food as free as possible from mineral substances 
produced disturbances in the muscular system in Taylors’ 
experiments on himself; disturbances of the nervous system 
have also been noted by Forster. A sufficient supply of 
phosphates and calcium are essential to the development of 
the bones and teeth. Herbivorous animals constantly have 
a diet poor in sodium and relatively rich in potassium. Such 
animals require from time to time some sodium chloride 
added to their ration. Carnivorous animals require no salt, 
since the salts in their prey are about those of their own 
bodies.” 

These statements of Prof. Mathews occupy only eleven 
lines out of more than a thousand pages in his book. The 
following chapter of this work is devoted to the considera¬ 
tion of the function of the organic minerals in our food¬ 
stuffs, but it is impossible to refrain from making some com¬ 
ment on Prof. Mathews statements above quoted. We may 
ask, how much mineral matter is essential to the body? It 
is reasonable, and scientific also, to conclude that if absence 
of mineral matter from foodstuff is dangerous, an insuffi¬ 
cient quantity of them is also dangerous. We are told that 
minimizing the mineral content of his food produced muscu¬ 
lar disturbance in Taylor’s experiments on himself, and that 
Forster observed nervous disturbances under the same con¬ 
ditions, but we are not given so much as a hint as to the 
reason for these disturbances. No, Prof. Mathews seems to 
be utterly unaware of the physiological function of the min¬ 
eral elements in the human system, and in this he is far from 

being alone. 


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III. 


THE FUNCTION OF ORGANIC MINERALS IN THE 

BODY. 

The material in this chapter was presented—in greater 
detail—to the chiefs of the Public Health Service, of the 
War Department, the Department of Agriculture, and to 
the Senators and Congressmen of the United States, in ad¬ 
vance of the outbreak of the Spanish influenza pandemia, 
but the warning to be plainly read therein was ignored. 
This chapter represents an epitome of the most illuminating 
work to be found in the archives of physiological chemistry 
from the time of Johannes Mueller, a period of eighty years. 
A thorough understanding of the facts which follow would, 
if properly used in fighting the present pandemia, have 
saved hundreds of thousands of lives in this country alone. 

There are sixteen chemical elements absolutely essential 
to healthy human life. In the composition of the human or¬ 
ganism we constantly find these elements: Carbon, oxygen, 
hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, 
potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, fluor¬ 
ine, silicon and iodine. 

Although chemical salts are only a small part of the 
material entering into the composition of our bodies, and 
are a very small item in our daily diet, their importance 
cannot be too strongly emphasized. They are the main 
sources for the development of electric-magnetic energy in 
the blood, and they perform other services. Whether you 
agree with me in thinking that they are the long-sought 


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“vitamines’^ does not matter, but you must instantly agree 
that they are essential to perfect metabolism. It was Justus 
von Liebig who laid down the Law of the Minimum, accord¬ 
ing to which the absence of the tiniest essential ingredient 
necessary to the growth and functioning of a given tissue or 
organ will result in disease. 

It goes without saying, of course, that no action in the 
world occurs without an impulse, hence the body must be 
given an impulse to grow. A series of chemical and physical 
facts indicate that phosphorus plays this vital part. The 
property of phosphoric acid of uniting with carburetted 
hydrogen to form carbonic acid and phosphuretted hydrogen 
is of fundamental importance, as phosphuretted hydrogen 
readily ignites on coming into contact with oxygen. Since 
the cerebrin consists of a combination of phosphoric acid 
with gelatine which contains ammonium, and with oleine, it 
is easy to infer that the light of the soul may be due to phos¬ 
phoric acid in the nerves and still further the potassium 
phosphate forming the mineral basis of the muscles. Thus 
we come to the conclusion that the phosphates, combina¬ 
tions of phosphoric acid with basic substances, possess in 
general the property of imparting the true impulse to 
growth, the accumulation of organic matter. 

The body, however, like every other structure, requires 
supports and props and, above all, a firm foundation on 
which to rest. Iron and lime, whose union is secured by 
their opposition to one another, bring into conjunction 
materials of contrary disposition for the creation of organic 
forms in the shape of plant and animal bodies. 

The sulphuric compounds are all related, and yet all op¬ 
posed, to the growth determining phosphoric compounds. 
All organic building material—all protein—contains phos¬ 
phorus and sulphur in varying proportions, and all indica¬ 
tions are that sulphur plays the part of a regulator in or¬ 
ganic growth. This is a vital function as the human body 
requires a controlling factor to ensure definite stability to 


25 


it, just as an engine requires a governor to regulate its pace. 
It is interesting to observe that normal blood contains about 
twice as many sulphates as phosphates. When there is great 
scarcity of sodium sulphate in the blood, abnormal growths 
develop from the phosphatic nerve tissues, and they continue 
to develop so long as the blood and lymph are deficient in 
sulphur, particularly in the sulphates. In the same manner 
that sulphuric acid controls and regulates the phosphoric 
acid of ammonium phosphate, so lime and magnesia act on 
this same ammonium phosphate. 

When there is a deficiency of lime and magnesia in the 
system, phosphatic ammonium carbonate lodges in the gela¬ 
tinous cartilage and stretches it, resulting in rickets. Such 
growth of cartilaginous tissues is controlled by lime and 
magnesia, as they change the pliant cartilage into bony 
barriers in which small particles of magnesia combine to 
produce phosphate of ammonium and magnesium which 
checks the further deposit of cartilage. 

Lime and magnesia are indubitably quite as effective 
agents in the control of ammonia as sulphur is in the control 
of phosphorus. If we consider the minerals, leaving out of 
account chlorine and fluorine for the moment, as the founda¬ 
tion and mortar which gives stability to the vital machine, 
we find that this role is played by iron, manganese, potash, 
soda and silicic acid. Sulphur, because it possesses the prop¬ 
erty of becoming gaseous, is able to take part directly in the 
formation of albumen, that variable basis of body material, 
whereas all of the other mineral substances except silicic 
acid can only be assimilated in the form of salts, so-called 
binary compounds. 

Normal blood albumen is essentially a compound of cal¬ 
cium and sodium into which iron and sulphur both enter. 
A deficiency of calcium commonly makes itself known by 
dental defects, just as lack of sulphur reveals itself by the 
falling out and poor growth of hair. Insufficiency of iron 
in the blood is evidenced, apart from lack of spirit, by pale- 


26 


ness of face and blue lips; insufficient sodium by glandular 
tumors and abnormal cartilaginous growths. 

The entire amount of iron in the blood of an adult per¬ 
son is, on the average under normal conditions, four grams, 
as much as a nickel weighs. We may well judge that this 
amount is not sufficient to set the motive power of our 
bodies in action, if we overlook that complex factor the cir¬ 
culation of blood. The left side of the heart has the capacity 
of containing about six ounces of blood, and every heart 
beat drives this amount through the aorta. With seventy 
beats to the minute, twenty-five pounds of blood is pumped 
from the heart every minute. What is the result? That if 
the four grams of iron keep up such an incessant movement 
as to pass from the heart into the aorta sixty times an hour 
or 1,440 times in 24 hours, it may be asserted that in 24 
hours 13 pounds of iron (that is, 1,440X4 grams) pass from 
the heart into the aorta. Can it be doubted, in view of this, 
that the iron serves to produce an electro-dynamic force? 

In respect to the generation of electricity, it matters not 
whether there be an entirely new supply of iron passing a 
given point, or whether the same iron pass that point anew 
each minute. Two factors work together in the circulation 
of the blood, namely, the active attraction of nerve tissue and 
the passive susceptibility of the blood contents to that at¬ 
traction. Faraday has conclusively shown that blood is 
magnetic in character because of the iron it contains. If 
four grams of iron is the normal quantity in the blood, it is 
clear that the reduction of this amount, say by two grams, 
will lessen its susceptibility and slacken its circulation. The 
electrical nerve ends will then strain in vain for the elec¬ 
tricity which the blood current should yield, and the result 
will be neuralgia. 

It is the magnetic iron in haemoglobin which makes 
every sort of nervous function possible, in the cerebral 
(brain) and in the sympathetic (intestinal) tracts, and 
since it is thus made clear that intellectual activity on the 


27 


one hand and breathing and digestion and excretion on the 
other are dependent on the iron content of the blood, we 
must also recognize that, as iron attends every nerve action, 
the secretion of urine too takes place under the influence of 
haemoglobin. Insofar as haemoglobin hastens the departure 
of the excrementitious matter in urine out of the system, 
there is a daily loss of iron in the urine. This loss in the 
form of urohaematin may total four centigrams, or a hun¬ 
dredth part of our supply. 

This loss of iron if not replaced by eating suitable food 
will soon make itself felt. In the course of a day the re¬ 
duction by four centigrams will diminish the energy of 
nervous activity about 1440 times the apparent loss, so that 
even a four weeks fever, during which no meat is eaten may 
completely exhaust the strength of an individual. Moreover, 
iron conditions bodily warmth as it combines with oxygen 
in a higher and a lower degree. In the lungs it is highly 
oxidized by the respired oxygen, but in contact with the 
nerve ends it gives itself only to a part of the oxygen pres¬ 
ent, and burns a certain portion of the lecithin to water, car¬ 
bonic acid and phosphates, thus creating body warmth to 
a considerable extent. 

In response to the chemical consumption of lecithin a 
new oil flows down the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, 
which are arranged like lamp wicks. The duration of the 
flow of this oil is, on the average, about eighteen hours. 
When the cerebro-spinal nerves refuse longer to perform 
their function fatigue and sleep ensue, and the current of 
blood leaves the brain and seeks the intestines. While the 
cerebro-spinal system rests, the sympathetic system takes 
up its task of directing the renewal of tissues and supplying 
the nerve sheaths through the lymph vessels, which draw 
their material from the digestive canal, with a new supply of 
phosphatic oil. Thus the brain and spinal nervous system 
are prepared for another day’s work. For the fulfillment of 
these processes, the magnetic blood current forms the in¬ 
termediary. 


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The presence of formic and acetic acid supplies the blood 
with fresh electricity to stimulate the nerves. “Under 
normal conditions,” says Julius Hensel, “this function is 
assigned to the spleen. This organ takes the part of a re¬ 
juvenating influence in the body in the manner of a relay 
station, and does so by virtue of an invisible but significant 
device. In every other region of the body the hairlike 
terminals of the arteries which branch out from the heart, 
merge directly in the tiny tubes (capillaries) of the veins, 
which lead back to the heart again; in the spleen this is not 
the case. Here rather the arteries end suddenly when they 
have diminished to a diameter of one one-hundred-and- 
fortieth of an inch and end in a bulb (the Malpighian 
bodies). Under such circumstances the sudden stoppage, 
particularly the impact of the magnetic blood stream against 
the membrane of a Malpighian body, exemplifies the physi¬ 
cal law of the induction of electricity, in accordance with 
which the blood that enters the spleen is changed into plas¬ 
ma and exudes through the membranes of the Malpighian 
bodies. The event indicates some fluidity of the red blood 
cells, which is a change affected in the body by the impact 
of electric sparks, and one which electrical therapy also 
brings about locally to prevent increase in the solid con¬ 
stituents of the blood.” 

The numerous Malpighian bodies in the spleen act as so 
many electrical conductors, and the product of their electric¬ 
al activity is found in the formic and acetic acid of the 
fluid plasma which filters through the Malpighian cor¬ 
puscles and supplies the acid tissues of the spleen (pulpa 
splenica). These acids are the electrolytic division products 
of lecithin. In the splenic pulp arise the capillaries of the 
splenic veins whose acid blood is carried directly to the liver, 
where certain cells formed like galvanic elements possess 
the property, through the electrical action of formic and 
acetic acid, of extracting from blood albumen the opposite 
of acids, namely, alkaline bile. The normal functioning of 
the liver, therefore, is dependent upon that of the spleen. 


29 


and since the bile produced by the liver goes to aid the di¬ 
gestive activity of the duodenum, disturbances of digestion 
must result when the quality of the bile is inferior. 

One of the substances contained in bile, lecithin, is of 
wide importance. When it was referred to a moment ago, 
I spoke only of its individual chemical nature as a fat in 
combination with ammonium phosphate, as by so doing I 
avoided error in connection with its apparently complicated 
formula, which includes glycerophosphoric acid, trimethy- 
lamin, palmitic and stearic acids. As it is a fatty substance, 
the only question that arises is—what does it contain besides 
fat? This may be answered by a process of subtraction: 

2 (C 2 iH 42 04 )C 42 H 84 O 8 which represents tallow or stearate 
of glycerine. Lecithin, C 42 H 84 O 9 NP differs from this 
only by a larger amount of ONP. The significance of 
this difference becomes clear when two atoms of water are 
added. Then ammonium phosphate PO3 H4 N is formed. 
The two atoms of water needed for the condensation of 
the ammonium phosphate from the stearate are obtained by 
separating them away from two of glycerine. 

The bile contains lecithin in a partially oxidized form. 
The chemical ‘remainders” are biliverdin and cholesterin. 
The latter when normal has, as you know, the power to 
neutralize snake venoms and other poisons, and thus acts 
as a natural anti-toxin. In addition, the bile contains com¬ 
binations of stearine with gelatine and with carbonate and 
sulphate of sodium, which theoretical chemists believe are 
twin compounds of glycocholate and taurocholate. These 
fatty compounds depend upon stearine partly oxidized, that 
is, deprived of a certain number of atoms of hydrogen. 

As the compounds of fatty acid with ammoniacal blood 
gelatine and sodium carbonate, the ingredients of the bile 
also develop into a peculiar soap. In the economy of the 
body the bile acts as a soap. When it is discharged into 
the duodenum, it changes the fats into so fine an emulsion 


30 


(chyle) that the microscopically fine drops of fat may be 
drawn into the orifices of the lymph canals and conveyed 
to the circulatory system, and the cleavage products of 
albumen produced by gastric digestion, the peptones (leucin 
and tyrosin) are carried along with them for the renewal 
of tissue cells consumed in respiration. 

If a soda soap is requisite for the purpose just stated, it 
follows that soda in the food is essential, as otherwise the 
supply of soda in the blood albumen cannot be renewed, 
and the bile cannot get its necessary supply of soda from 
blood albumen devoid of soda. Consequently, the entire 
nutritive process is dependent upon bile, and the bile cannot 
properly perform its function if denied soda. 

In addition to carbonate of sodium, especially the hydro¬ 
carbonate known as glycolate, the bile apparently contains 
ammonium sulphate combined with hydrocarbon (taurin) ; 
but this results from the transposition of sodium sulphate 
and gelatine. Gelatine contains six atoms of hydrocarbon 
joined with two of ammonium carbonate, a group which is 
separable by chemical action into five of carburetted hydro¬ 
gen with ammonium carbonate (leucin or gelatine milk), 

Cs Hio CO2 NH3 and into one of carburetted hydrogen with 
ammonium carbonate (glycin or gelatine sugar) CH 2 CO 2 
NHs. This latter substance, gelatine sugar, is not produced 
in the liver, as it exists already in the blood gelatine. In an 
isolated condition it has the property, in virtue of its am- 
monical acids and its carbonic acid bases and, therefore, 
of both combined, its salts, of producing chemical fixation. 
This property is conveyed to the undivided blood gelatine 
in which the gelatine sugar is contained intramolecularly. 

Since normal blood albumen is inconceivable without 
sulphur, it is absolutely essential, in accordance with our 
knowledge of the constituents of the bile and their origin, 
that our nutriment should contain a sufficiency of sodium 
sulphate, if normal blood serum is to be produced. The 
use of pepsin for this purpose cannot serve nature’s pur- 


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pose, as it contains neither sodium carbonate nor sodium 
sulphate. Our blood must be given a fresh and sufficient 
supply of sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate via our 
food, if it is to produce normal bile and supply the requisites 
of normal nutrition. 

It is erroneously held that sodium sulphate is simply a 
laxative, even Burner’s “Royal Medical Calendar” so classi¬ 
fies it. Often it discharges this function, it is true, in con¬ 
centrated solution (one to five). But it is an important 
ingredient of healthy blood albumen (one to one thousand), 
and in this proportion assists in the formation of normal 
bile. 

The blood of the Caucasian race is found to contain 
about ten parts of salt to the thousand, and this propor¬ 
tion of salt denotes firm tissue material. If the quantity 
of salt in the blood is diminished, the bi-concave red blood 
cells swell to a spherical form from access of water and 
lose their ability to unite for the production of connective 
tissue. Moreover, to the extent salt in the blood cells is de¬ 
creased, the connective tissue and muscle and tendon sub¬ 
stance absorb water and the tissues become spongy, especial¬ 
ly in the kidneys, so that the thinned blood albumen seeps 
through (urea albumen). 

Phosphate of potassium is the mineral basis of muscle 
tissue, phosphate of lime with a small amount of magnesium 
phosphate the basis of bones, and phosphate of ammonium 
the basis of nervous tissue. There is a sufficient quantity 
of phosphate in all healthy foods. When the milk fed to 
nurslings, however, is greatly thinned with water instead 
of firm muscle fibre and solid lymph glands, we find loose 
and spongy tissues. This is a scrofulous condition. 

In the formation of healthy bones and teeth, calcium 
fluoride is essential. It is insoluble in plain water, but is 
made soluble by the aid of the glycocoll in blood gelatine 
and changed into ammonium fluoride. It appears in this 
form in the cartilaginous matter of the eye lenses, and lack 


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of calcium fluoride in the food results in the clouding of 
these lenses. 

Silicic acid is not only indispensible to the growth of 
hair, but it forms a direct connection between blood and 
nerve tissues. It is found in birds eggs, both in the white 
and the yolk. It is a conservator of heat and electricity, as 
it is a good insulator. It also possesses eminent antiseptic 
qualities. Its mere presence in the intestinal canal, even its 
simple passage through the canal, conserves the electrical 
activity of the intestinal nerves and thus influences the 
whole sympathetic nervous system. 

This brief review, cursory as it is, of the function of the 
minerals in the renewal of substances undergoing tissue 
change, makes it clear that our daily food must contain a 
sufficient quantity of them if healthy metabolism is to be 
maintained. 

Chemically considered the human body is one individual 
whole, its characteristic chemical basis being gelatine. 
Lieut. C. E. McDonald, U. S. A. Medical Corps, recognized 
this when he recently wrote: “The similarity of chemical 
compositions explains why, when any particular region 
falls a prey to chemical decomposition, others quickly be¬ 
come affected.” 

Oxygen gas is the medium through which chemical com¬ 
bustion is carried on in the body for the purpose of prepar¬ 
ing materials to enter into its composition. The mineral 
salts already named not only form the solid basis of the 
various tissue but also serve as conductors or insulators of 
electricity in the body. The absence of one of them for a 
protracted period is sufficient to explain widespread de¬ 
generation in the system. 

In view of the fact that these various minerals play an 
indispensible part in healthy metabolism it is imperative 
that a sufficiency of them should be applied in proper pro¬ 
portion in our food daily—if we desire to retain or restore 
health to the body. 


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Indeed, the instincts of both animals and human beings 
leads them under certain conditions right back to the earth 
and its lesson. Note the avidity with which hens confined 
in arid runs devoid of vegetation, worms, insects, and small 
stones devour a compound of lime and ground bones and oy¬ 
ster shells. Observe a child whose ration is deficient in 
mineral elements eating egg shells, wall plaster, chalk and 
other earthy substances. What do these things mean? 
Nothing more than this: both chicken and child express a 
natural craving for the essential elements to build bone and 
form the basis for the tissue. 

I have stressed the important part the minerals play in 
both the vegetable and animal kingdom for the purpose of 
stressing our great need of more of them in our daily diet, 
and I may add that this is equally as true in the case of those 
we call healthy as of those who are diseased. No matter 
how carefully the diet may be regulated as regards the 
quantity of protein and carbohydrates and fats, and the 
ratio between them, healthy metabolism is impossible with¬ 
out a sufficiency of the essential minerals. 

In view of the facts with regard to the function of these 
minerals, it is indisputably true that a ration is physio¬ 
logically inefficient if it does not contain a sufficiency of 
them in proper proportion. Moreover, this is trebly true 
in the case of those whose constitution has been weakened 
by loss of blood from wounds, by shell shock and trench 
fever, and of those here at home whose nerve tissue has 
been degenerated and whose blood has been weakened by 
anxiety and the strain of unwonted manual labor. The 
last consideration applies with especial force to the multi¬ 
tudes of women who have entered industry as manual labor¬ 
ers. What kind of offspring can we expect from these peo¬ 
ple whose plasma is thus degenerated? The children are 
the citizens of the future, and even before they are born we 
must plan for their health. 

I am the last person in the world to deny that wonderful 
progress is made in surgery every day, and the last to fail to 


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applaud its successful efforts, but you know quite as well 
as I do that in ninety out of one hundred cases recovery in¬ 
volves exhaustion of the patient’s reserve energy. More¬ 
over, when the reserve energy has already been drawn upon 
almost to the point of exhaustion, no matter how successful 
the operation may be, the recovery of the patient is a very 
doubtful quantity. The first requisite in all surgical cases, 
as also in all anaemic and neurasthenic cases, is to restore 
metabolism to its normal condition and thus help the patient 
to regain his reserve energy in order to prevent the collapse 
of the whole fabric. 

It is indubitably true that healthy metabolism and the 
restoration of reserve energy depends upon the organism 
being given the requisite quantity of the sixteen essential 
elements of organic life in easily digestible and assimilable 
form. I have not entered into a full discussion of the vari¬ 
ous aspects of my method, but have confined myself to con¬ 
sideration of the basic principles underlying it. Neither 
have I attempted to show how these different minerals will 
serve as regenerative agents in different dysaemic condi¬ 
tions. I am prepared to discuss the matter from both of 
these viewpoints, however, and—more than that—I am 
ready to practically demonstrate the soundness of my the¬ 
ories, when given an opportunity under proper conditions 
to do so. 


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IV. 


MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND SYMPTOMATIC 

THERAPY 

The description of influenza which follows is from the 
pen of Prof. George Kuhnemann, an authority on practical 
and differential diagnosis. But I am constrained to remark 
in advance, a list of symptoms, with the order of their prob¬ 
able appearance, and possible complications, is not a diag¬ 
nosis of a disease in the sense that the underlying cause is 
revealed. Before a successful attempt can be made to diag¬ 
nose a disease in this sense, we must recognize that both the 
objective and the subjective symptoms are but the reflex of 
an underlying cause, and we must seek that cause. Only 
when we know the cause of a disease are we in a position to 
tell what it is. 

The facts cited in the previous chapter afford ample 
proof of the correctness of what has just been said. But 
most physicians are not familiar with the chemico-physio- 
logical process of the body as a whole, and in consequence 
have been content to ascertain and suppress individual 
symptoms with the aid of drugs. The failure of these ef¬ 
forts in connection with the Spanish influenza has been 
confessed by some of the leading medical men. 

As careful consideration of all the symptoms of the dis¬ 
ease and the effect of trying to remove those symptoms with 
the aid of drugs, can only serve to emphasize the accuracy 
of my diagnosis and the soundness of my method of treating 
it. I am giving Prof. Kuhnemann's description in full: 


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“Fever is always present,” Prof. Kuhnemann says, “but 
not of any certain type. At times, after short periods of 
Apyrexie there is a rise in temperature, sometimes swelling 
of the spleen. There is no characteristic change in the urine; 
sometimes Albuminuria. There is an inclination to perspire 
freely; consequently Miliaria is often present; also Herpes, 
less frequently other Exanthema, Petechien. The mucous 
membranes are inclined to hemorrhage (Epistaxis, Hema- 
temesis. Menorrhagia, Abortion). “Complications and af¬ 
ter effects” he lists as: “1. On the part of the respiratory 
system: Croupose and Broncho-pneumonia of atypical 

progress (atypical fever of protracted course, relatively 
strong Dyspnoe, Cyanosis, feeble pulse) and high mortality; 
after effects serous or mattery Pleuritis, Lung abscesses, 
Phthisis. 2. On the part of the circulatory system: Myo¬ 
carditis, Endocarditis, Thrombose. 3. On the part of the 
digestive tract: Chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh. 
Dyspepsia. 4. On the part of the nervous system: Any 
form of Neuralgia, Paralysis, Neuritis, Psychosis, etc. 5. 
On the part of the sense organs: Otitis media. Nephritis 
and Muscular Rheumatism are observed. Influenza aggra¬ 
vates any case of sickness, especially lung trouble. 

“Aetiologie: The influenza bacillus (found in blood and 
excrement) is to be regarded as the cause. The malady is 
highly contagious. Period of incubation given as, from 
two to seven days. Runs its course in one to two weeks, re¬ 
covery as a rule favorable; though convalescence is often 
protracted. Unfavorable results are brought on through 
complications, most often by Pneumonia. 

“Diagnosis: Easily determined during an epidemic or 
marked symptoms. The catarrhal form of influenza differs 
from simple catarrh of the mucous membranes of the re¬ 
spiratory tract through the presence of nervous symptoms 
and a more abrupt beginning. The symptoms may be sim¬ 
ilar to those of Measles or Abdominal typhus. In each case, 
complications with Pneumonia must be considered. 


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‘The proof of the presence of the Influenza bacillus/' 
he concludes, “is of little value in the diagnosis and differ¬ 
ential diagnosis in medical practice as the bacillus cannot be 
distinguished with enough accuracy through the micro¬ 
scopic examination, which must be a very minute culture 
proceeding." The words of a great poet characterize the 
learned professor, and most medical men perfectly: “He 
holds the parts within his hand, but lacks the mental grasp 
of all." 

So much for the symptomatic description of the disease; 
now we will glance briefly at the train of symptoms and lo¬ 
cate their individual causes: 

The ever present fever is due to stagnation of the blood. 
This is discussed somewhat at length later. Swelling of the 
spleen caused by catabolism of the Malpighian bodies. Al¬ 
buminuria the result of cold in the Plexus renalis; Perspira¬ 
tion due to numbness in nerve fibrils. The inclination of 
the mucous membranes to Hemorrhage is explained by con¬ 
gestion of blood in the capillaries, which is due to lack of 
vigor in the nerve fibrils: When the nerve fibrils fail to 
act, the capillary circulation stops and the blood overloaded 
with carbonic acid presses against the walls until they burst. 

The complications and after effects are explained in the 
following manner: 

Complications in the respiratory system are all due to 
failure to properly treat the acute stage of the disease, and 
where the resistance of the patient has been sapped they 
usually end lethally—^that is, in death. The complications 
which appear in the circulatory system are subject to the 
same explanation as fever. The digestive complications are 
to be explained by impairment of metabolism brought on by 
the loss of energy by the Vagus nerve. Those complications 
arising in the nervous system are explainable as conse¬ 
quences of the degeneration of the whole Vagus tract. 
Sensory complications are due to the disease finding lodge¬ 
ment in the “minoris resistentia," the point of least re¬ 
sistance of the patient. 


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In the light of the foregoing explanation of the meaning 
of the various symptoms of influenza, it should be clear that 
their cause is deep seated, that it is spread over a large part 
of the organism. But the regular practitioner of medicine 
will, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, treat the disease 
in the manner indicated below. 

The fever he will immediately seek to suppress with the 
aid of one of the hundred or more febrifuges; i. e. a drug 
whose purpose is to allay or dispel it. 

In catarrhal respiratory complications, the doctor will 
prescribe Dover powder (Opium and Ipecac) (two rank 
poisons) Aspirin, Nitr. of Bismuth, Morphine Muriate, 
Laudanum, etc., for the stomach and bowels; Tincture of 
Laudanum (opiate). Morphine Muriate, Syrup of Ipecac, 
Codein (opiate) Belladonna, etc. for the bronchial tubes 
and lungs. No, he will not give them all at once! 

In cases where nervous complications are grave, the 
doctor will, as a general rule, seek to allay the pain by giv¬ 
ing one or more of the following drugs: Nitr. Bromide, 
Sulfonal, Sulphate of Sublimat, Chloroform, Hyosciam, 
Morphine Muriate, Extract Opii, Chloral Hydrate, or any 
one of a great list of others. They are intended, of course, 
to allay pain, but the fact that they narcotize and paralyze 
the nerves, and therefore hinder metabolism and assist the 
process of catabolism is lost sight of. 

In cases where the influenza takes the dyspeptic or 
gastro-intestinal form, the list of drugs cited in connection 
with the discussion of the catarrhal respiratory phase of the 
disease will be used, being varied according to the whim of 
the physician in charge. 

The utter futility of this symptomatic therapy, to call it 
by no harsher name, will be perfectly apparent to anyone 
capable of thinking for himself after he reads the descrip¬ 
tion of the disease and the course of treatment recommend¬ 
ed by the present writer. 


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V. 


THE WANDERING ROOT OF THE INFLUENZA. 

The symptomatic description of the disease given by 
Prof. Kuhnemann in the last chapter was summed up by 
him in the statement that the bacillus found in the blood and 
excrement of the patient is to be regarded as its cause. But, 
he adds that the bacillus cannot be observed with a micro¬ 
scope accurately enough to be of much use in making the 
diagnosis. It is to be noted that he does not flatly say the 
bacillus is the cause, but only says it is to be regarded as the 
cause. 

This is the last word medical science has to say with re¬ 
spect to the basic cause of influenza; the bacillus is to be re¬ 
garded as its cause. But why should we regard the bacillus 
as the cause? To arbitrarily regard the bacillus as cause is 
to beg the question. It is clear, however, that medical 
science has no idea of how to ascertain the cause. What¬ 
ever else it may be, viewing the bacillus as the cause is un¬ 
scientific. What a thing is and does, that is what science 
seeks to explain. Scientific knowledge is based upon facts, 
and. deals with laws, but has no relation to dogmatic opin¬ 
ions. 

As a matter of fact, all the evidence of Prof. Kuhne- 
mann’s diagnosis, every symptom he lists, points unerringly 
to something beyond the bacillus as the primary cause of the 
disease. When the basis of those symptoms is explained, the 
medical profession would, indeed, be hard put to disprove 
that the bacillus is a result of the disease, instead of its 
cause. 


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The symptoms so fully described by Prof. Kuhnemann, 
and observed by all physicians coming in contact with the 
disease, all occur in those regions where the Vagus (Wan¬ 
dering) or Pneumogastric nerve functions. It will be wise, 
therefore, to observe the course of this nerve, to remark its 
connections, and note its functions. The facts thus gathered 
may be of use to us in tracing the objective symptoms of 
influenza to their source. In the last analysis, of course, 
the bodily processes are a unit, and this must be borne in 
mind if we are not to be led astray by appearances, by ob¬ 
jective symptoms. 

The functions of the Vagus may be roughly divided into 
two classes, physiological and psychic. They are listed in 
advance of the discussion of the character of this nerve, for 
the purpose of emphasizing the striking parallel between 
its functions and the symptoms of influenza. Broadly stated, 
its physiological function is to regulate breathing, tasting, 
swallowing, satisfaction of hunger, digestion, etc., and its 
failure to properly control those functions finds expression 
in coughing, choking, or indigestion, or vomiting, with acute 
pain, or in a combination of two or more of them. Its psychic 
function includes assisting in the expression of shame, de¬ 
sire, disgust, grief, anguish, etc. 

This Vagus nerve, like a wandering vagabond, is creat¬ 
ing a great deal of disturbance, and in order that we may 
understand him we will let science describe him for us. This 
is the exact description: Vagus or Pneumogastric nerve 
(tenth cranial) ; function—sensation and motion; originates 
in the floor of the fourth ventricle (the space which repre¬ 
sents the primitive cavity of the hind-brain; it has the pons 
and oblongata in front, while the cerebellum lies dorsal), 
and is distributed through the ear, pharynx, larynx, lungs, 
esophagus, and stomach; possesses the following branches— 
auricular, pharyngeal, superior and inferior laryngeal, car¬ 
diac, pulmonary, esophageal, gastric, hepatic, communicat¬ 
ing, meningeal. 


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The physician and the interested lay reader should turn 
back and read Prof. Kuhnemann^s description of influenza 
in the light of this exposition of the ramifications and the 
functions of the Vagus nerve. 


II. 

So that the deductions to be drawn from the operation 
of the Vagus may be indisputable, let us glance at the man¬ 
ner in which nerve tissue is formed in the first instance and 
observe what occurs in nerve metabolism. 

An inherent impulse in the ovum (protoplasm; egg cell) 
serves to separate the albuminous substance into groups of 
an opposite nature. Water is chemically separated from 
one portion, which results in thickening the albumen from 
which it was extracted, while the liberated water aids in 
liquifying another portion of the albuminous matter. Thus 
arises, on one side slender threads termed fibrine or fila¬ 
ments, and on the other appears lymph liquor, which re¬ 
ceives the particles of salts freed from the filaments during 
their chemical separation. When the fibrine and lymph are 
organized from the protoplasm, the remaining albumen is 
absolutely unchanged and ready to furnish material for the 
growth of either. 

It is the function of salts to increase the electrical ten¬ 
sion of the lymph. All salts possess the property of being 
electrically positive or negative. The more concentrated a 
saline solution, the greater its electrical energy. 

That the function of the lymph is to assist in the for¬ 
mation and nutrition of the nerves is apparent when the 
nature of lymph and the composition of nerve substances 
are compared. The contrast which exists between fibrine 
and lymph, and the similarity of lymph to nerve marrow. 


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when taken together, justify the conclusion that the nerve 
substance, lecithin, was formed from lymph in the first in¬ 
stance. 

The whole process of life consists of an electro-chemical 
combustion. This is clearly shown in the case of lecithin, 
which serves to control both motion and sensation. In the 
presence of oxygen it burns up, forming a new chemical 
combination, and throwing off minute quantities of carbonic 
acid and water in the process. Every movement and process, 
both voluntary and involuntary, and every thought and emo¬ 
tion, depends upon oxidation, which consumes muscular tis¬ 
sue and nerve substance. 

The greater our physical exertion the more muscular tis¬ 
sue must be consumed. The higher our emotional state, the 
more we think, the greater must be the quantity of nerve 
substance burned up. All of the substance burned up in 
labor, in worry and thought, must be replaced or the flame 
will flicker out! 

The metabolism of muscular tissue is beside the point at 
this moment. We are concerned here with nerve metabolism 
alone. This occurs in the following manner: In response 
to the demand for new material created by the chemical com¬ 
bustion of lecithin, new oil flows down the axis and cylinders 
of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged somewhat in the 
manner of lamp wicks. The average duration of the flow 
of this oil is about eighteen hours. When the cerebro-spinal 
nerves refuse to perform their function any longer, because 
the supply of oil is running low, fatigue and sleep ensue, and 
the blood descends from the brain to the intestines. Thus 
the cerebro-spinal system is permitted to relax and rest. In 
the meantime the sympathetic nervous system has taken up 
the task of directing the renewal of worn tissues, which 
draw their supply of necessary materials from the digestive 
canal, with a new supply of phosphatic oil. For the carry¬ 
ing out of these processes, which prepare the brain and 


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spinal nerve system to perform another day’s work, the 
magnetic blood current forms the intermediary. 

It follows inexorably that (1) a radical change in our 
diet may result in giving us an insufficient supply of the 
various elements necessary for the production of lecithin in 
the proper quantity; (2) physical labor to which we are un¬ 
accustomed may involve a greater consumption of nerve sub¬ 
stance as well as muscular tissue, and then our normal diet 
will not be able to supply our need; (3) or a long continued 
emotional tension may affect at once our appetite and our 
digestion while it continues to burn up our nerves. 


III. 

In discussing the causes of disease Julius Hensel lays 
great stress upon the emotions. He goes so far as to say 
that they “undoubtedly occupy the first place amongst the 
factors causing disease, and we must not evade the consid¬ 
eration of them. We shall find that their action also amounts 
to an electro-chemical process.” I would not for one instant 
be understood to hold that the emotions alone are sufficient 
to explain the origin of disease—far from it. There are 
other factors—sometimes they are dominant—diet, nature 
of occupation, changes in the weather, climate. 

Insofar as the present pandemia is concerned, however, 
there can be no doubt in the mind of any person who is will¬ 
ing to think the matter out for himself in the light of the 
electro-chemical nature of life, that the emotional stress 
incident to the war, plus dietetic upheavels, offer an ex¬ 
planation of it. 

It is to be remembered that the Spanish influenza arose 
in Europe as an epidemic, in 1917, and in the course of a 
few months it had become pandemic. 


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The outbreak of the war in 1914 shook the whole civil¬ 
ized world to its very foundations, emotionally. More than 
that, it upset the international relations of people in every 
part of the globe. It forced the peoples of Europe to go on 
a new ration. Some twenty million men had to shoulder 
arms and march away to the battlefields, leaving behind 
them mothers, wives, children, relatives. Soon the roar of 
Mars echoed and reechoed around the world. 

There is no need of entering into a detailed description 
of the emotional state of the peoples directly concerned in 
the war or of those immediately adjacent to the war zones; 
it was an emotional conflagration, a holocaust of hate and 
horror, of fear and anguish. 

The Vagus nerve, as stated a moment ago, is concerned 
with the expression of these very emotions. In consequence 
of the high tension of the emotions it was consumed at an 
alarming rate. It is almost incredible that this fact has 
been given no thought whatever in connection with the 
spread of Spanish influenza! 

The diet of the peoples most closely affected by the war 
was not only greatly changed, but also much curtailed. 
There was a veritable flood of substitutes for the usual foods 
of these people. I am not discussing whether the nutritive 
value of these substitutes was high or low, but I want to 
make the point that they involved a dietetic and digestive 
revolution. The curtailment of the quantity of foods which 
the people were in the habit of consuming daily is of very 
great significance. Both of these facts together show that 
a fresh burden was added for already overburdened bodies 
to carry. 

It is absolutely essential to the maintenance of physical 
normality, to health, that the metabolic process shall keep 
pace with the catabolic. In plain words, the body must be 
given enough fresh nutritive material to replace what has 
been burnt up in labor, in thought or emotion. 


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Very shortly after the beginning of the war, for two ob¬ 
vious reasons, namely, the shipping situation or lack of con¬ 
tact with outside countries, and especially those overseas, 
and with the withdrawal of vast numbers of men from agri¬ 
culture and industry, the price of fats, eggs, flour, etc., be¬ 
gan to soar ever higher. In the course of a little more than 
two years many of these essential foodstuffs were fetching 
practically their weight in gold on the continent of Europe. 

Moreover, the withdrawal of millions of men from pro¬ 
ductive labor in order to fight imposed upon those remain¬ 
ing behind, both women and men, the necessity of carrying 
on the work of supplying the fighters with food and muni¬ 
tions. Indeed, even a multitude of children had to partici¬ 
pate in this labor. 

The nature of most of this work was nerve racking, to 
say the least of it, and much of it was dangerous in a high 
degree—^the making of high-power explosives and deadly 
gases, for instance—thus adding to the nerve strain. 

The details as to this phase of the situation can be read¬ 
ily filled in by any well-informed and thoughtful person. 
Hence, I will not catalog them here. Shell shock, trench 
fever, etc. are known to all. 

It is impossible in passing, however, not to stress the 
fact that the effect of unwonted manual labor, or manual 
labor of a type with which they were utterly unfamiliar, 
upon the sensitive organism in the case of a multitude of 
women was bound to be disastrous. This was, of course, 
doubly assured by the fact that their nourishment was in¬ 
sufficient for their needs, or of an improper nature. 

Instead of a curtailed diet—and it was curtailed both 
as regards variety of items and quantity—this was just the 
time when, because of greatly increased combustion of leci¬ 
thin and muscle tissue, there should have been an increase 
in the food ration. 


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In the case of a great many women—mothers, wives, 
sweethearts of the fighting men—their emotional tension, 
their fears, worries, and very often their anguish, was so 
great as to diminish their appetites and upset their diges¬ 
tions. 

The effect of this emotional conflagration could not be 
other than the depletion of the Vagus, the reduction of the 
vital resistance, and the preparation of the soil for an epi¬ 
demic, aye, for a pandemia of influenza, and all sorts of 
constitutional disturbances. 

If it be said that the war was confined to Europe and 
that but few of the warriors came from abroad, the answer 
is that the economic and emotional life of the entire world 
was convulsed and upset by it. Not only economically, but 
even more important, emotionally, the effects of the war 
were felt in the home of millions of people in this country. 

There is no need of laboring the point, as he who is not 
blind must see the relation between the emotional stress of 
the war and the pandemia of Spanish influenza. 

The matter has been discussed in broad outlines herein 
because there is not time to enter details at every point. 
This is an occasion where haste is justified, as the sacrifice 
of life goes on unchecked while the nature and cause of the 
pandemia are not understood. 


IV. 

We have just seen the effect of malnutrition and strenu¬ 
ous labor and protracted emotional tension upon the electro¬ 
magnetic forces of the Vagus, as well as upon the rest of the 
human organism. Disturbing influences, as we know, may 
abnormally increase or decrease the positive or negative 
electrons. The effect of decrease of their number will be 
apparent in a moment. 


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When the slowly vibrating negative outnumber the rap¬ 
idly vibrating positive electrons, the electronic vibration of 
the whole body is lowered. The result is that we become 
depressed, feel weak and tired, possess little bodily warmth. 
Our metabolism is upset, falls far below normal, and the 
skin becomes pale, because of the morbid action set up in 
the mucous membrane by the overplus of negative electrons. 
Catarrh arises. This is the ground in which negative dis¬ 
eases thrive: Influenza, nervous debility, anaemia, cholera, 
diptheria, etc. 

The proper therapeutic method to use in the treatment 
of negative diseases, particularly in the treatment of influ¬ 
enza, has already been indicated in the course of this discus¬ 
sion, but it will form the subject of the next and concluding 
chapter, where it will be shown in detail. 


VI. 


THERAPEUTIC MEASURES FOR THE INFLUENZA. 

Influenza is a negative disease, as we have seen; a mem¬ 
ber of the catarrhal group of affections. After careful con¬ 
sideration of all aspects of its origin and development, I am 
of the opinion that it would be more accurate to name this 
disease Panasthenia : general loss of vitality. 

Insofar as prophylactic measures are concerned, we may 
sum them up very briefly: Keep your head cool, physically 
and mentally; your feet warm, the bowels regular, the pores 
open, and breathe plenty of fresh air. Eat enough whole¬ 
some food to satisfy your appetite. In short, keep your 
metabolism (the process of discarding worn-out matter and 
replacing it with fresh nutritive material) in good order. 

But if for any reason you experience a chill these days, 
go to bed at once as a precaution. Put on a warm abdominal 
pack, drink a good hot lemonade, sweetened, and strength¬ 
ened (if possible) with some good old rum or grape brandy. 
Then relax, forget your personal troubles and go to sleep. 
Nine times out of ten, you will awaken with a moist feeling 
all over the body. Take a warm sponge bath on arising, 
dress warmly, and remain at home for a few days. Thus all 
danger may be averted. This course is easy to follow. Ig¬ 
norance of it has cost a great many people their life! 

In case you were belated in commencing this preventive 
treatment, you may be the one out of ten who does not 
awaken with that fine warm feeling after the first use of 
the abdominal pack. Remember the first injunction, keep 


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your head cool and don't worry. Repeat the pack treatment 
in the evening, and if possible keep it on all night. When 
you awaken in the morning you will feel as though your 
body had lost a dead weight during the night, as, in fact, it 
will have: For the pores of the skin, thanks to the pack, will 
throw off a mass of impurities. Thus you will save your 
lungs, bronchial tubes, kidneys, etc., from being overloaded 
with self-created poisons called auto-toxins. In other 
words, you will have assisted nature in carrying on the pro¬ 
cess of metobolism in your body. Only in rare cases, if this 
treatment is started soon enough, will it be necessary for 
the patient to remain in bed several days. In such cases, of 
course, modification of the treatment must be adjusted to 
the individual case. 

As very few people know how to make or apply the ab¬ 
dominal pack properly, I will give an illustration of it and 
some instructions for making it. 



The abdominal pack should reach from the breast nip¬ 
ples to below the hips. It is made from a clean piece of 
woolen cloth or a blanket, which must be wide enough to 
reach from the nipples to a point just below the hips, and 
long enough to go around the body and fold over the front. 
In addition, two or three coarse linen towels which have 
been frequently laundered, or suitable pieces of linen cloth, 
and a few safety pins are needed. 


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Sometimes the pack has to be made narrower so as to 
cover only the stomach and belly (7 to 8 inches wide) and 
the woolen part must be folded accordingly. For children 
a towel, as a rule, will do nicely. In the case of infants, a 
properly folded piece of old linen will serve. The linen as 
well as the woollen material must be measured and properly 
folded in advance, so that the patient will not have to wait 
too long while the pack is being put on. The cut shows how 
the pack is to be put on an adult patient. 

The towel or linen cloth is dipped into vinegar-water, 
(composed of two parts water and one part vinegar), the 
temperature of which should range from 90 to 100 degrees 
Fahrenheit, then wrung out and placed on the woollen 
material in such a position as to leave a margin of two or 
three inches of woollen goods at the top and bottom. The 
pack is now placed around the back of the patient, who sits 
up in bed, or is held up by an assistant. His shirt is lifted 
up and he lies down on the moist linen, which must be 
quickly folded up over the abdomen and covered with the 
woolen cloth. The latter is then pinned together at the 
middle and top and bottom with safety pins. The shirt is 
pulled down and the patient carefully covered. This pack 
must be applied speedily to prevent the patient from being 
chilled. 

A similar pack should be applied to the feet and a hot 
water bottle placed against them. 

These packs can be allowed to remain on the patient 
from one to two hours, depending entirely upon how he 
feels. When he becomes restless, however, immediately re¬ 
move the packs. 

Thus far we have dealt with the question of augmenting 
the electro-magnetic force of the body, which the packs are 
intended to accomplish by the increase of bodily heat and 
the stimulation of the capillary circulation. It may be asked 
why vinegar should be used for this purpose. The acetic 


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acid of vinegar is absorbed through the pores and trans¬ 
formed into an acetate, which will prevent coagulation of 
the blood. This removes the cause of those s 3 miptoms men¬ 
tioned by Prof. Kuhnemann in connection with the cir¬ 
culatory system. Thus one of the gravest dangers is re¬ 
moved. 


II. 

It may appear paradoxical, but fever accompanies severe 
attacks of negative as well as positive diseases. But 
we must know, first of all, the nature of fever, and the 
variations in its development in different types of physique 
and mentality, if we are not to grievously err in handling it. 
It operates like a fire, burning up infectious matter. Unless 
the nerve fibrils are already paralyzed, an evil smelling per¬ 
spiration which follows the fever carries off the auto-toxins 
through the pores. In any case, it is the duty of the physi¬ 
cian to control and guide the fever. 

What shall be done to control fever in a given case de¬ 
pends not only upon the temperature, but on the physique 
and temperament of the patient also. It may be said that 
people of a calm, phlegmatic disposition will not suffer 
from very high fever, except in the case of serious complica¬ 
tions. Those of quick, volatile temperament, and most child¬ 
ren, on the other hand, often suffer from high fever without 
serious complications. It is unnecessary to argue that dif¬ 
ferent treatment is called for in each of these cases. 

The normal temperature for human beings varies be¬ 
tween 98.6 and 99.5, and fever is recognized the moment 
the thermometer records 100.4 F, according to the usual 
medical diagnosis, and an effort is made immediately to re¬ 
store the temperature to its normal level. But this practice 
is in flat contradiction to the teachings of physiological 


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chemistry. Viewing the problem from the latter point of 
view, it does not follow that the fever should at once be re¬ 
duced. Not at all. The disposition of the patient and the 
nature of the disease, as already indicated, must both enter 
into the calculation as to what is best to do. 

The speedy reduction of a fever involves lowering the 
excitement present in the internal organs of the patient, 
and also the complete stoppage of a process of combustion 
which is destroying infectious matter. 

In the case of a physically strong and phlegmatic patient, 
the speedy reduction of the fever is not only permissible, 
but is desirable. Such a patient can stand, and indeed re¬ 
quires, the reduction of the internal excitement. But in the 
case of a person of weak physique and nervous tempera¬ 
ment, the reduction of the fever must proceed slowly, as the 
swift reduction of it would be dangerous. 

The fever should always be reduced in accordance with 
the strength of the patient, never faster or more than he 
can stand, if extreme nervous irritation, which has caused 
the death of countless human beings, is not to follow. It is 
better, therefore, to leave a nervous patient’s fever un¬ 
disturbed while we seek to strengthen him so that he can 
overcome the fever without outside aid. 

For this purpose I recommend simple ablutions, and in 
some cases the application of the abdominal pack already 
described. In addition, the vigor of the patient is to be in¬ 
creased by giving him alternately Dechmann’s Plasmogen 
and Dechmann’s Tonogen, at intervals varying from a half 
to two hours. 

The treatment, let me repeat, must depend upon the 
temperament and strength of the patient. The quiet ener¬ 
getic person can endure energetic packs. His body may be 
completely packed, or at least three quarters, by placing wet 
and dry sheets around the entire body except the arms. 


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while a woollen blanket is wrapped around the whole body 
including the arms, or the arms may be left free under the 
bed clothes. A patient of this type may also be treated with 
ablutions or put into a half bath at 75 degrees, while cooler 
water is poured over him. Young and robust patients can 
endure even cooler baths, which act as a powerful stimu¬ 
lant. 

The weaker and more nervous a patient is, the greater 
caution must be exercised in the use of baths. Such a patient 
should be given only lukewarm baths, or ablutions at 77 de¬ 
grees, which may be made to exert a greater stimulus by not 
drying him. The frequent washing of hands, face and neck, 
without drying them, is very beneficial to weak patients. 
Clean, well combed hair also soothes. Slight ablutions of 
the head, and combing the hair while it is wet, are very re¬ 
freshing and cooling, especially to women. 

What has been said with regard to the treatment of 
fever may be summarized thus: In the treatment of a 
strong patient one can rely upon a vigorous procedure. 
Cold packs may be applied if the fever is very high; every 
half hour or hour, or at intervals of an hour and a half to 
two hours when the fever is not so high. With persons of a 
weaker constitution, less energetic and more varied treat¬ 
ment is required. Mild ablutions several times a day, with 
occasional packs on the lower part of the body, or on the 
calves of the legs. Cool or cold enemas have a quieting in¬ 
fluence on the large blood reservoir in the abdomen. Too 
much water weakens the patient, therefore, only a very little 
at a time should be given as a drink. 

As indicated above, fever is a state of excitement, an 
internal revolution, which differs so greatly as to cause and 
in degree, that it cannot be judged or treated according to 
any fixed rule. The significance of fever depends, of course, 
upon the temperament and the strength of the various or¬ 
gans of a patient. In other words, our treatment of fever 


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in a specific case must be determined by the power of re¬ 
sistance possessed by the patient. 


III. 

It is essential that the supply of vital force, but that of 
the nerves in particular, shall be increased speedily, and for 
this purpose nothing better can be obtained than Dechman- 
na Egg Punch. The method of preparing this, and the di¬ 
rections for its use follow: 

Take one dozen of absolutely fresh eggs, separate the 
whites from the yolks very carefully, and beat the yolks into 
a fine emulsion. In the meantime, take one pound of sugar 
in a pint of water and boil until a rich syrup is obtained. 
Then pour the still warm syrup slowly into the egg-yolk 
emulsion, stirring it continually so that there is a perfect 
combination of the yolk and syrup. Have your physician 
prescribe for you a pint of Elixir aromatic, U. S. Pharma¬ 
copoeia, and mix this with the emulsion of egg yolk and 
syrup. 

This divine Ambrosia is at once medicine and food. Take 
a sherry glass full three times a day. It can be made more 
appetizing and more nourishing by beating the whites of 
the egg to a froth and serving a little on top of each glass. 

In explanation of the great restorative value of Dech- 
manna Egg Punch, consider these facts: The yolk of a 
fresh egg contains about one gram of pure lecithin—^that is, 
pure nerve fat—which is absolutely essential to supply the 
nerves with energy and material for combustion. It also 
contains organic iron which is indispensible for binding the 
inhaled oxygen. Moreover, it contains in organic form all 
of the minerals essential for the upbuilding of new cells in 
the body. The sugar syrup acts both as a preservative of 


albumen and as a generator of bodily heat. The etheric 
oils in the Elixir aromatic are the finest nerve stimulants 
known to the science of physiological chemistry. 

How does it succeed in helping to tone up and restore the 
depleted Vagus nerve? 

When this Ambrosia is digested and assimilated it 
courses through the lymph channels and lacteal vessels and 
by the familiar route followed by the chyle enters the heart, 
where it joins the blood. In the arterial blood it is carried 
to all parts of the body, including the external glands, and 
thus aids in energizing the Vagus nerve and all its acces¬ 
sories. Once in circulation, it bursts into the pancreas and 
other glands, and the intestines, mingles with the secre¬ 
tions of the glands, with the oily salts of the bile, and any 
impurities (auto-toxins) it finds are driven in the form of 
excrement and urine out of the system. 

This indicates that it acts upon the whole physiological 
process at one sweep. Thus the bowels and kidneys are 
assisted in performing their functions properly, and the de¬ 
structive and poisonous results of catabolism are speedily 
removed from the body. What course of therapeutic action 
could be more rational ? 

Compare this for a moment with the usual method of 
treating the disease. The result of this method is to tone up 
the system, to refresh the nerves by supplying material with 
which to make good the waste incident to disease, and to aid 
the circulation of the blood. The usual practice, on the 
other hand, is to prescribe drugs which either whip the fam¬ 
ished nerves into activity or else narcotize them. Aspirin, 
a rank concoction, is a favorite, though it will ruin any di¬ 
gestive tract. Anti-febrine, Anti-pyrine, Codein, Heroin— 
so the list runs. Not one of them possesses the power to 
add a single atom to the vital force. On the contrary, every 
one of them serves but to narcotize, to stifle the spark in the 
already weakened and overburdened nerves. 

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In addition to what is said about diet, it should be borne 
in mind always that a pure atmosphere rich in oxygen is 
one of the principal remedies demanded in the treatment of 
diseases of the nerves, lungs and larynx. Those affected 
with diseases of these organs must avoid drafts and sudden 
changes in temperature, and should make it an inflexible 
rule to live in rooms where the temperature is equable. 

At this point let me suggest a dietetic scheme for use in 
the treatment of influenza. It will be noted that the regime 
includes the use of pack while the patient is awake. This is, 
of course, to be applied in the manner already described. 

The daily regime follows: 

For breakfast : A bowl of milk toast with a piece of butter 
melted on it. 

AtlO a. m.: A sherry glass of Dech-manna Egg punch with 
a Graham cracker. 

At noon: A bowl of strengthening soup with a piece of 
buttered toast.* 

2 to 4 p. m.: Abdominal pack. 

At 4 p. m.: A sherry glass of Dech-manna Egg Punch with 
a Graham cracker. 

At 7 p. m.: A cup of custard with a slice of buttered toast. 

At 10 p. m.: A sherry glass of Dech-manna Egg Punch 
with a Graham cracker. 

After the patient has partaken of food, a piece of extra 
thick woollen cloth should be warmed and placed over the 
abdomen for about an hour. 


*The recipe for making the strengthening soup men¬ 
tioned in the above dietary appears a little further on. Also 
a recipe for making Dech-manna Egg Punch in those States 
where the physician is forbidden to prescribe the Elixir aro¬ 
matic of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 


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The strengthening soup: Three pounds of fresh beef 
bones broken into inch pieces by the butcher, and with a 
pound of brisket added, after a thorough washing in cold 
water, should be put in enough cold water to cover them and 
allowed to stew for several hours. Now take soup vege¬ 
tables, such as parsley, celery, onions, carrots, leeks, turnips, 
and others; chop them fine, suspend them in a cloth bag in 
the broth, and boil for two or three hours. Then take off the 
stove, strain the broth through a cloth and put in a stone 
jar. This is a gelatinous stock rich in organic minerals. 

For each day, take a third of the stock, add a little water, 
bits of egg, barley, sago, vermicelli, etc., and finish cooking. 
Flavor with a little salt. The ingredients added to the daily 
portion of this soup should be varied so as to avoid having 
the patient quickly tire of it. Hard toast or zwieback should 
always be eaten with soup, so as to salivate it properly. 

The albumen and marrow of joints is readily transform¬ 
ed into blood gelatine. It requires very little change in the 
process of digestion to prepare it for absorption by the 
lymph vessels of the intestines, which suck up the chyle. 

In those States where the Elexir aromatic cannot be law¬ 
fully prescribed, the Dech-manna Egg Punch may be pre¬ 
pared as follows: 

Take one quart of simple syrup and a dozen fresh eggs 
prepared as already described. Then mix and dissolve the 
following etheric oils in quantity of lemon extract stated 
below, and pour the whole slowly into the syrupy emul¬ 
sion of egg-yolk and simple syrup: 

Oil of Orange : 10 drops. 

Oil of Coriander: 1 drop. 

Oil of Anise : 1 drop. 

Lemon Extract : 18 drops. 

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Put a spoonful of beaten white of egg on top of each 
glass of Dech-manna Egg Punch, and add a dash of grated 
nutmeg. 

In the therapeautic measures described thus far in this 
chapter I have endeavored to show how we may check the 
development of incipient influenza, and how we can avert 
the dangers attendant upon its development if we are be¬ 
lated in discovering that we are in its grip. It is quite im¬ 
possible, of course, to discuss every phase of the disease and 
its treatment in detail within the compass of this booklet. 

The question of complications, for instance, is so broad 
that a discussion of it would take far more space than the 
booklet contains. It is discussed fully in the second edition 
of ‘'Dare to be Healthy,"’ a simple compendium of informa¬ 
tion on biology and physiological chemistry. A copy of this 
work may be had for the asking. 

The author does not practice medicine, does not visit 
patients. He is a counselor in biology and physiological 
chemistry. If the physician in charge desires he will con¬ 
sult with him about the application of the principles out¬ 
lined herein to the treatment of patients suffering from in¬ 
fluenza. 


IV. 

In the light of what has been revealed with regard to the 
functions of the Vagus nerve and the development of influ¬ 
enza, the bacillus should be forever left inside the covers of 
learned books on bacteriology. It has been but a poor apol¬ 
ogy for an explanation of the disease to which human flesh 

is heir! 

The searching light of chemistry reveals to us clearly 
that the problems in disease are to be solved only by stopping 
chemical decomposition of the blood, and it shows us how to 
accomplish this. 


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I have sought to apply the principals of physiological 
chemistry to the diagnosis and treatment of influenza. I 
know that I have not only succeeded in throwing some light 
upon this darkest of all epidemics, but have explained the 
underlying cause of it, and my task is finished. Philosophy 
teaches us that knowledge is like love, a veritable paradox, 
in that we can only preserve it by giving it away. Such 
knowledge as I have, I give freely to humanity. 

*‘Primum est humanitaSy 
Secundum scientia” 

February 1st, 1919. 

127 North 59th Street. Telephone: Ballard 2274. 

Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. 


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